by | Jan 4, 2024 | Nutrition
The sugar industry responds to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic. In terms of excess body fat, the “well-documented obesity epidemic may merely be the tip of the overfat iceberg.” It’s been estimated that 91 percent of adults—nine out of ten...
by | Jan 2, 2024 | Nutrition
You may lose a pound of fat by skipping just 10 calories a day or as many as 55, depending on whether you’re improving food quality or restricting food quantity. If the 3,500 calories per pound of weight loss rule is bunk, what’s the alternative? To lose a pound of...
by | Dec 28, 2023 | Nutrition
What are the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss? Thanks to millions of years of evolution hard-wiring us to survive scarcity, our body has compensatory survival mechanisms to defend against weight loss. When we start losing weight, we may...
by | Dec 26, 2023 | Nutrition
How many fewer calories do you have to eat every day to lose one pound of body fat? The first surgical attempt at body sculpting was in 1921 on a dancer “who wanted to improve the shape of her ankles and knees.” The surgeon apparently scraped away too much tissue and...
by | Dec 21, 2023 | Nutrition
What are the effects of the female sex hormones in cow’s milk on men, women, and children? All foods of animal origin contain hormones, but most of our dietary exposure to hormones comes from dairy products. By quantity, as you can see below and at 0:16 in my video...
by | Dec 19, 2023 | Nutrition
Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals, but by microbes blanketing the earth. We presumably used to get B12 when we drank out of a mountain stream or sipped water from a well, based on studies showing vegetarians in developing countries who drink purified water...
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